Fernando Alonso’s Plan needs to be nurtured by all the help available to it. In a sport as extremely detailed as Formula 1 , where every detail matters, the teams make the most of any tool at their disposal and, where the talent of the driver does not reach, other much more technical elements can do so, including artificial intelligence. In this field, the Spaniard has the support of one of the most important automobile groups in the world.
“ Formula 1 is moving more and more towards less physical tests, with more and more simulations and data analysis. At the Renault group we have world-class artificial intelligence that has been used for the last 20 years in manufacturing, in marketing, everywhere. All this can help us during the race or when performing data analysis. All of those things can help us bridge the gap and potentially outperform our rivals,” explains Alpine CEO Laurent Rossi .
Fernando Alonso’s team took a very important step forward in the last Formula 1 World Championship, finishing fifth in the constructors’ championship, and now aspires to “win races and possibly a championship.” “I think we have all the tools to reach that goal. All teams start from scratch with the new rules and work with the same restrictions, “recalls Rossi .
Among these changes that Formula 1 has introduced with the clear objective of equalizing the action on the asphalt and seeing more close races in 2022, in Alpine they especially value the budget limit, which this season is reduced to 140 million dollars (about €124 million). “It is not like before, that some teams invested 200 million and others could go up to 500 million,” Rossi adds in statements collected by Motorsport .
There are less than three weeks to go before Alpine unveils the new single-seater that Fernando Alonso and Esteban Ocon will drive this season. Specifically, the brand new A522 will see the light on February 21 and two days later it will be released on the asphalt of Monteló at the start of the preseason.
